Well at least Los Angeles and Arizona helped us out by beating San Diego and Colorado. The Rockies have dropped four in a row, so they're on just as bad of a skid as the Braves. Meanwhile the Padres and Giants keep inching closer to the Braves in the Wild Card while switching places atop the NL West.
It's kind of interesting right now that four of the playoff contenders have almost identical records. The Braves, Giants, and Reds all have 86-and-67 records, while the Pads are 85-and-67. This thing is tight!
The Nats finally announced their Saturday starter, Yunesky Maya. They still haven't announced Sunday's starter. The Braves beat him, and we can only hope that he balks in the winning run again. Tim Hudson faces Jordan Zimmerman tonight, and while I wish the best for the kid coming off surgery, I hope he starts pitching well only after tonight's start.
The Braves need a win so bad right now.
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My thought for the day...
The Cincinnati Reds don’t have a chance at making it out of the first round.
Few_Proud_Brave - September 24, 2010
Which is why we want them to have a better record than the NL West so we draw them in the first round. Which is completely feasible considering the NL West teams are going to be beating up on each other the last 9 games. However, the Reds can put it in cruise-control because they’ve pretty much locked up their division.
Sir Veza - September 24, 2010
I agree with you on all accounts.
But what scares me is that the Reds seemed to have put it in “cruise control mode” some time back. The only reason they’ve kept the lead they have is that the Cards, confusingly, have completely sucked for weeks now.
Old Braves' Fan - September 24, 2010
TWSS
Swo12bv - September 24, 2010
god willing
15ks - September 24, 2010
sweep da gnats
just win, baby
lingsched - September 24, 2010
I'll be at Saturday's game
hopefully Maya implodes again and Lowe is the same DL we’ve seen the last few starts.
nuftjedi - September 24, 2010
The Braves need to hang in there...
If we can get to the final weekend with the Padres and Giants swapping the NL West first place everybody and we manage to tied the one at the top or get a .5 o full game lead over them, we can seal this deal since one of them will for sure lose in their final matchup to close the season.
This series as well as the Marlins are MUST WINS right now… anything worse than 4-2 would be terrible.
jgalmonte - September 24, 2010
I think 5-1 is needed. I can’t see either of those two teams doing worse then 5-4 over their last 9.
Broccoman - September 24, 2010
5-4??
Considering they play each other, that’s going to make that difficult for BOTH to do that well.
Then you factor in the Giants playing the Rockies and the Padres playing Cincinnati…and it makes 5-4 for both look pretty difficult. Factor in that the Padres have an extra game to play that is a must-win (we won our extra, for all intents and purposes, since we’re in the lead w/ fewer games left), and we’re still sitting in pretty good position. 4-2 wouldn’t kill us at all, considering their end-of-season competition.
-C
cthabeerman - September 24, 2010
How bout our old boys KJ and Laroche helping out the Bravos. Thanks boys! Glad to see Colorado fall back.
CharlotteChop - September 24, 2010
I was thinking the same thing last night.
Justin’s homey Mr. Johnson had a longball in each of the three games.
Sam Jethroe - September 24, 2010
Hindsight is 20/20
But we could really use KJ in a Braves uni right about now, even if just to give Prado a few days of rest
HansonManCrush - September 24, 2010 via mobile
Nevermind
I totally forgot about Brooks… What is wrong with me??
HansonManCrush - September 24, 2010 via mobile
More like we could have used him to platoon with Diaz in LF.
redwards95 - September 24, 2010
this.
Jareth Cutestory - September 24, 2010
Jordan Zimmermann
I recall his first ever start was against us last year. He out pitched DLowe and beat us. Hopefully, this will not happen.
I think the Nats might be Dunn and Zimmerman (the 3B with just one N) less but they were able to scores quite a few runs yesterday (off Astros…so that may not count) without them.
LEastCoastBears - September 24, 2010
Hudson vs. Nats in 2010
Tim Hudson is 12-1 with a 1.65 ERA in 15 career starts against the Nationals/Expos. 14 of those starts was with with Atlanta.
He’s made four starts against the Nats this year. He is 2-0 with a 1.57 ERA. The Braves are 3-1 in those four games.
The only loss was Hudson’s first start against the Nats this year on May 6. Hudson pitched well. He only allowed 2 runs over 7 innings, he only allowed 6 base runners on 5 hits and a hit batter. He struck out 4 and walked no one. Unfortunately, two of the five hits were solo home runs. Even more unfortunately, his opponent that night, Scott Olsen, took a no-hitter into the 8th inning until the Braves finally tagged him for two runs to take Hudson off the hook. But the Nationals would go on to win 3-2 in the 9th.
AnEternalEnigma - September 24, 2010
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